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Endera delivers electric shuttles to ACE Parking for San Diego Airport; Lightning Systems drivetrain

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Endera, a technology company specializing in commercial electric vehicles, charging stations and software solutions, delivered 18 all-electric passenger shuttles to ACE Parking, for use at the San Diego International Airport.

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Researchers from Caltech and UC San Diego report very high performance catalysts to convert seed oils to olefins

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Researchers from Caltech and UC San Diego have developed a family of ruthenium-based metathesis catalysts that have shown exceptional activity in the conversion of seed oils to linear-chain olefins. In many cases, catalyst turnover numbers (TONs) of more than 100?,000 000 were achieved, at a catalyst loading of only 3 ppm.

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DOE awards ~$34M to 11 projects to advance waste and algae bioenergy technology

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The selected projects will: Research and develop waste for energy conversion ($20 million). Topic Area 1: Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste to Enable Production of Conversion-Ready Feedstocks. University of California: San Diego. Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. 3,411,838.

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Winter EV Conversion Workshop

Electric Cars are for Girls

If you're in the San Diego area, and would like to attend an EV conversion workshop. The Kick Gas Car Club is offering a series of evening classes, starting in January, on converting a small pickup to electric. Class size is limited to 8 people. Follow the link for more information or to grab a seat.

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Retro Styling Kit Appears for the Toyota Tacoma

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An outfit called Flex has apparently been slinging these types of conversions for some spell but is now expanding its presence into America through a location in San Diego. & Arguments have raged for eons about the effectiveness of these types of conversions in which an older car’s visage is pasted onto a modern machine.

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UCSD, South 8 team report improved liquefied-gas electrolytes for Li-metal batteries

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The research, published in the journal Joule , builds on innovations first reported in Science in 2017 by the same research group at the University of California San Diego and the university spinout South 8 Technologies. C, the team demonstrated lithium-metal anode cycling efficiency of 98.4%.

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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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Scale-Up of the Primary Conversion Reactor to Generate a Lignin-Derived Cyclohexane Jet Fuel. Microchannel Reactor for Ethanol to n-Butene Conversion. Conversion of 2,3-Butanediol to Biojet Fuel: Scale-up and Technoeconomic Analysis of Energy-Efficient Separations and Fermentative Diol Production. University of North Dakota.

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